DAC Collection Artist Information

Emmet Gowin
American (born 1941 - )

American photographer

Brief biography, in most instances from the Union List of Artist Names® Online:
Born 22 December 1941. Gowin began to photograph in 1961 and has worked as a freelance photographer since 1967. In 1971, Gowin moved to Newtown (Illinois, United States). In 1973, he became a professor of photography at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Gowin began to photograph Mount Saint Helens, Washington, in 1980 and has returned to photograph the mountain every year since. He has also photographed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Peru throughout the 1970s. In 1982, he photographed in Jordan.

Artist ID number in the Union List of Artist Names®:ULAN 500037046.The ULAN link above leads to a cataloging authority record at the Getty Research Institute.

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